A few months before the earthquake I met Dr Fred Sorrells of the Institute of Sports. Even then, he was trying to introduce sports for the disabled in Haiti.
Just this week I met him again practicing with a team of Amputees on the soccer field of Quisqueya Christian School. It turns out that Haiti has been invited to play in the World Cup of amputee soccer to be played in October in Argentina.
We helped him immediately by giving him several cases of "The Champion" evangelistic booklets we had been given for our World Cup outreach and also some follow up discipleship material.
In addition I was able to tell the men the story of how I was shot. They were very moved by the story and applauded when it was over.
The next day we gave him some shorts and Ronald was able to help train the team. More importantly, 6 out of the 30 players indicated that they had trusted Christ for the first time. So God continues to use the tragic circumstances of life for His glory!
Then on Saturday, Ronald and I worked with 6 goalies who only had 1 arm. Out of these 6 we selected 3 to be on the World Cup team.
Ronald and I have been asked to continue to work twice a month with the special men at Quisqueya Chapel, where Carol and I go to church. They have a nice field we can practice on.
Please continue to pray for this exciting opportunity!
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